Subhi al-Tufayli

Subhi al-Tufayli (1948-) was the Secretary-General of Hezbollah from 1989 to 1991, succeeding Ragheb Harb and preceding Abbas al-Musawi.

Biography
Subhi al-Tufayli was born in 1948 in Lebanon, and he spent nine years studying theology in Najaf, Iraq. He was influenced by cleric Musa al-Sadr and met many other Islamist clerics in Ba'athist Iraq, later forming Hezbollah alongside Abbas al-Musawi in the Beqaa Valley back home in 1982. From 1985 to 1989 he fought in the Lebanese Civil War as a spokesman for Hezbollah, and from 1989 to 1991 he was the Secretary-General. However, al-Tufayli opposed the group's moderation towards the Lebanese state and its involvement in politics as a political party, and he was also angered that Iran wanted to use Hezbollah as a border guard against Israel and wanted to take over command. In February 2013 he criticized Hezbollah for fighting for the Syrian Arab Republic when they had "not fired a shot in defense of the Palestinians" and the government of Lebanon for allowing people to cross the border to fight in the Syrian Civil War.